The Washington critic., 1887-10-20
TOPICS OF THE DAY.

Sitting In the office Of the Comptrol.
Ter of the Treasury the other day, says
Austin of the Times Star, were two gen.
tlemen, waiting for the preparation Of
some document which the bureau was
just about completing. On the wall
opposite hung fine oil portrait Of
Salmon p. Chase, the first Comptroller,
showing him as handsome, florid.
faced man, without beard, and with
head partially bald. "That doesn't
look much as he did year ago." said
one of them, noting the handsome por-
trait, "a year ago? Why he has
been dead these ten years or more,
hasn't he 2" "Yes, eighteen of them.
Yet ! saw him only year ago, with
full beard and full head Of hair. Very
different from the picture you see be.
fore u.s." what do you 2"
Simply this. was present
when his remains were taken
from Oak Hill Cemetery for
transmission TO Cincinnati year
ago. Although seventeen years had
elapsed, the remains were still In an
almost perfect state. The features
were entirely distinguishable to those
who knew him In life. The clothing
was In perfect state of preservation.
The principal changes were that the
face was dark, and instead Of being
smooth, as was his custom In life, II
was covered with q full growth of
beard, two inches or so In length, and
mixed with gray. The head, which
with a full suit of hair, partly gray.
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troller" and he took the document
handed him and was gone.
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Speaking of John Randolph Tucker
of Virginia, Macfarland of the Phila-
delphia Record says: His hair and mus.
tache are getting gray, but his cheeks
are as ruddy and his eyes as sparkling
behind his gold trimmed glasses as ever.
Now that he is 60 years old he thinks 1t
is about time he should make some
money, and SO he has settled down to
practise law with every prospect of
marked success. No lawyer, whatever
his reputation, can make In Washington
100000 or $500, 900, or whatever 1t is
that Conkling makes year In New
York. But man Of fuckers standing
can make small fortune in few
years, trust Tucker may, ! don't
know any man that fortune would so
well become. The number of things
that man like him could do with the
money some of our millionaires don't
know what to do with would
astonish the millionslres. Although
Judge Tucker has not got
his library all unpacked, yet he Is al.
ready up to his ankles In cases. The
appeal of the Chicago Anarchists to the
United States Supreme Court Is one of
them. When Tucker was asked by a
horror stricken friend the other day:
"What, will you defend the Anarch.
lists ?" he replied: II will defend the
Constitution" 1t Is, of course, solely
for the reason that he believes their
constitutional rights have been In.
fringed, that he has taken the case of
those wretched fellows. He does not
see how any lawyer could refuse to de-
fend any man In the rights guaranteed
him by the Constitution. If Attorney.
General Garland should ever resign you
would see John Randolph Tucker at
the head of the Department of JUS
tice. Meanwhile he will make money
enough, trust, TO entertain as he
would like to as member Of the
Cabinet.
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happened to meet General Rosser
at Woodstock, says correspondent Of
the New York Tribune, where he was
on visit which ! was told had been
announced beforehand so as to give his
friends an opportunity to arrange for q
grand reception. The ex.commander
Of the rebel Laurel Brigade title
which 1t earned long before he was
placed at the head of 1t, however
seems to be better fed aud more pros.
porous man than when saw him six.
teen or seventeen years ago In Min.
nesota, where he was then employed as
an assistant engineer by Jay Cooke &
Co. In laying out and constructing the
Northern Pacific Railroad between
the Mississippi and the Red River
OF the North. lie was In pretty
hard straits at that time, but he
worked manfully, and, hear,
has made moderate fortune out OF
lucky investments In that region, a
thing which any man with his oppor
tunities might easily do. There are
threads of silver In the General close
cropped hair and short mustache, and
his form Is more portly, but he Is well
preserved, and, indeed, is In the prime
of life. lie has fine farm In Albe
marie County, where he lives during
most of the year, and understand that
he is ambitious to enter public life as 6
Representative In Congress. His out
break against Sheridan seems to have
been a bid for popularity, but 1t re
suited only In notoriety which he ha'
found to be not altogether pleasant, anC
which he would now be glad to have
Yirginians forget.
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Says the Philadelphia Record
Florence l.. Loux, the G.yelr.ol(
daughter of Frederick Loux, living OF
South Sixth street, opposite indie
pendence Square, is the proudest chilC
attending the Horace Biuney Publ,
School. as she possesses picture o
President Cleveland with the latter
autograph at the bottom, together will
letter from the Chief Magistrate
The circumstances under which the,
were received are quite romantic. Lit
tie Florence, during the President
visit to Philadelphia in September last
conceived the idea of presenting hin
with a bouquet of flowers, She ac
cordingly gathered handful of will,
flowers, and having arranged them II
tastefully as her little fingers coul,
do, she called at the Lafayette Hote
and asked that they be sent t
the President She was greatlY sur